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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A swampy region of southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina. George Washington surveyed the Dismal Swamp in 1763. Much of the heavily forested area has been drained and cleared for agriculture.
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Examples
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Most of the time was spent at a place we called Dismal Swamp, which was located near the North Carolina border.
Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992
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1 To promote my first novel, In the Dismal Swamp, which is coming out in June 2008.
Archive 2007-12-01 Joe Konrath 2007
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The Dismal Swamp together with the Everglades and the Okefenokee Swamp contain the largest peat and muck deposits on the Atlantic seaboard south of Maryland (Hunt, 1974).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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The Dismal Swamp is critical habitat for several vulnerable mammals, including the threatened Dismal Swamp subspecies of the southeastern shrew (Terwilliger and Tate, 1994).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Alligators of the Dismal Swamp, and are always lying by to drag the Golden
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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The great Dismal Swamp lays to one side of it and endless farmland on the other.
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The great Dismal Swamp lays to one side of it and endless farmland on the other.
The Commute 2004
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Most of eastern North Carolina is, in fact, swamp, the Dismal Swamp, and, also, the water, which would be considered the Sounds there, the Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds.
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The remaining lots and fifty thousand nine hundred seventy-five acres (some of which land was already conditionally sold) he directed to be disposed of, together with his live stock, government bonds and shares held by him in the Potomac Company, the Dismal Swamp
George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth
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The Dismal Swamp in Virginia is the only place where a death from disease has never occurred.
The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections Vivid portrayal of Amusing Scenes Robert Arnold
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Also a locale in north-west Tasmania.
August 17, 2020